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on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:12PM
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You can't escape virtual reality.
VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung are getting ready to hit the market. Their goal: to give you an easy-to-use virtual reality experience with your PC at a lower price than competing headsets from the likes of Sony, Facebook and HTC.
That's the promise of VR powered by Microsoft Windows, the software that runs hundreds of millions of PCs and tablets around the world. When Microsoft begins sending out a free update to Windows 10 on Tuesday, it'll power VR headsets as well. It's called "Windows Mixed Reality."
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:57PM
Mixed Reality == Virtual Reality + Augmented Reality
The definition [wikipedia.org] is muddled, but if you look at the implementation [theverge.com] (at least how it has been marketed in the last 2 years), it becomes more clear.
An augmented reality device like Google Glass or HoloLens has a transparent display and it overlays graphics on the real world. A virtual reality device like Oculus Rift or HTC Vive covers your eyes and displays stereoscopic graphics throughout your field of view. A mixed reality device covers your eyes like a VR device, but also adds front-facing cameras in order to capture the real world, which can be used to act as an AR device, or ignored (full VR mode).
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